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| wiki-2026-0508-markov-chain-monte-carlo |
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) |
10_Wiki/Topics |
verified |
self |
| MCMC |
| Metropolis-Hastings |
| Gibbs Sampling |
| HMC |
| NUTS |
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none |
A |
0.9 |
applied |
| bayesian |
| sampling |
| mcmc |
| hmc |
| pymc |
| numpyro |
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2026-05-10 |
pending |
| language |
framework |
| Python |
PyMC/NumPyro |
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
매 한 줄
"매 MCMC = stationary distribution이 target인 chain 만들기". 정규화 상수 모르고도 posterior 샘플 가능.
매 핵심
매 알고리즘
- Metropolis-Hastings: propose q(x'|x), accept α=min(1, π(x')q(x|x')/(π(x)q(x'|x))).
- Random walk MH: q = Normal(x, σ²). σ가 acceptance 결정.
- Gibbs: 조건부 p(x_i | x_{-i}) 순차 샘플. conjugate에 강함.
- Slice sampling: 보조 변수, tuning 적음.
- HMC (Hamiltonian): gradient + leapfrog. high-dim 효율.
- NUTS: HMC trajectory 자동 결정. Stan/PyMC/NumPyro 기본.
- SMC, parallel tempering: multi-modal에 유리.
매 진단
- Trace plot: chain 안정성 시각 검사
- R̂ (Gelman-Rubin): 다중 chain 수렴, <1.01 권장
- ESS (effective sample size): 자기상관 보정 샘플 수
- Energy diagnostic (HMC): divergent transitions 0 목표
- Posterior predictive check: model fit
매 응용
- Bayesian posterior 추정 (intractable normalizer)
- Hierarchical models (multilevel regression)
- Latent variable models
- Bayesian deep learning (BNN, variational alternative)
- Phylogenetics, epidemiology
💻 패턴
Metropolis-Hastings (numpy)
Gibbs sampling (bivariate normal)
PyMC (NUTS)
NumPyro (JAX, fast)
Diagnostics (ArviZ)
효율 팁
매 결정 기준
| 상황 |
Sampler |
| Low-dim, custom posterior |
MH (간단) |
| Conjugate hierarchical |
Gibbs |
| Continuous, gradient 가능 |
NUTS/HMC |
| Discrete latent |
MH within Gibbs, SMC |
| Multi-modal |
Parallel tempering, SMC |
| 대용량 / GPU |
NumPyro (JAX), BlackJAX |
| 빠른 prod 근사 |
VI (대안), Laplace |
기본값: continuous → NumPyro/PyMC NUTS. Discrete → Gibbs / SMC.
🔗 Graph
🤖 LLM 활용
언제: 모델 작성, sampler 선택, divergence 진단 가이드.
언제 X: 복잡 hierarchical model 검증은 도메인 전문가 + posterior predictive.
❌ 안티패턴
- Centered hierarchical에 NUTS 그대로 (divergences) → non-centered
- Single chain → R̂ 불가, 수렴 진단 X
- Burn-in/warmup 무시
- Acceptance rate 99% (step 너무 작음) or 1% (너무 큼)
- Trace plot 안 보고 mean만 신뢰
- VI로 충분한데 MCMC 돌리기 (시간 낭비)
🧪 검증 / 중복
- Verified (Gelman BDA3, Neal HMC review, Hoffman NUTS, PyMC/NumPyro docs). 신뢰도 A.
- 중복: 없음.
🕓 Changelog
| 날짜 |
변경 |
| 2026-05-08 |
Phase 1 |
| 2026-05-10 |
Manual cleanup — PyMC/NumPyro 패턴, ArviZ diagnostic |